Motivational Quotes

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.